Emotional Intelligence
Your EQ is Key to Career Success!
Research has powerfully proven that if you are a professional, particularly one in a leadership role (or want to be promoted into one), your emotional intelligence (EQ) capacities can make or break you. What matters is how others (staff, colleagues, key stakeholders/clients and other senior leaders) perceive your EQ abilities like self-awareness, emotional reactivity, adaptability [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Setting & Keeping Boundaries
Boundaries are the focus of many of my client coaching conversations. I think of boundaries as limits (or fences)—being able to know where I end (or where my work ends) and the other begins. Being able to set limits, having autonomy, decision making control and determining acceptable and non-acceptable behavior from others involves setting boundaries.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Workplace Stress
These are tough times for workers and leaders. No one is immune. So how can leaders keep up morale in these high stress times? I don’t have a magic bullet but I can offer some suggestions for leaders.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: What you can do to reduce job stress
WHILE JOB STRESS isn’t new, there is no doubt it’s on the rise. This workplace coach sees an alarming trend in frazzled, burned out and exhausted workers. The constant theme I hear: Everyone is increasingly challenged to do more with less. According to a Northwestern National Life survey, one out of four workers view their [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Gauging the impact of negative boss
Impact — it can be positive (the energetic, charismatic leader who inspires and engages) or negative (someone who walks into a room, lights a fuse with words or behaviors and is often oblivious to the chaos he/she has created). An important part of self-awareness (and emotional intelligence) is understanding how your words and behaviors affect [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Don’t let stress control you at work
American workers are more stressed out than ever. The American Psychological Association just released its annual “2008 Stress in America” poll and the findings aren’t surprising — the economic downturn is taking a physical and mental toll. Half of Americans surveyed say they are increasingly stressed about their ability to provide for their family’s basic [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Managers need to set example in tough times
IT’S A PARTICULARLY challenging time to be a workplace leader. Bad news is everywhere. Many leaders are being forced to make difficult decisions that negatively affect people they care about. No one likes to lay people off or cut back resources, creating more work and stress. All of this comes at a great emotional cost. [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Don’t let a poor reaction to stress ruin your career
THE HOLIDAYS are stressful. Add in this year’s recession, with one in five workers worried about losing their jobs, and it’s not surprising that many workers are downright grumpy. Many companies have cut back on bonuses, even sacred holiday parties, while asking workers to “do more with less.” As a result, nerves get frayed and [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Defuse loose cannon or business is in peril
AS AN EXECUTIVE coach/consultant, I commonly get calls like the one I got last week from an HR professional who, along with the company CEO, was looking for help with a valued employee also considered a loose cannon. These “problem employees” can be a huge challenge and risk to companies. Why? Loose cannons can and [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Leaders shouldn’t be silent in tough times
THESE ARE ANXIOUS times in the American workplace. Retailers had the worst Christmas season in decades, long-standing companies are closing their doors, workers are being laid off by the thousands and cutbacks are far and wide. Needless to say, tensions are running high everywhere. There is a lot of fear of the unknown; workers are [...]
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